Monday, May 03, 2004
Updates
Okay, I know I haven't been updating my blogsite for a long while. Don't complain 'cause my other more important things have also been neglected as well. My websites, PhD technical journal, Yuka research and development, etc. Well, at least I'm gonna take this opportunity to think about what I need to do in the coming weeks and set a few priorities straight.
Well, first of all, ISER 2004 conference paper is almost finished. Setting up the experiment to be recorded as a movie to be submitted with the conference paper. Gotta read and finish off the literature review part. Once that's done, Roy and I are gonna discuss about the new experimental set-up. Got Jason to purchase more SMA wires as well.
In the mean time, I've got a few things to try out on the current set-up and control system. Might be helping or working with the honours student who is continuing on my project.
PhD coursework shouldn't be a problem. Just finished one and will be having the oral exam this week. Wonder how we're going to proceed with it.
I should also commit myself to collecting more papers or journals on SMAs and really start reading and summarising them. This year will basically be filled with a lot of small projects, papers and courses so it feels very chaotic. My feeling is that i'm quite disorganised at this stage although i'm still keeping up with things. But in terms of scientific research and experimentation, i' still lacking that.
ProjectYUKA, in case people are unfamiliar with that, is a joint venture i'm currently involved in as its research engineer. Basically it's related to human-computer/human-environment interface technologies. Will probably have a link to it once we're prepared to lodge the provisional application and published some stuffs.
I've basically moved the development process to my own house. I found it quite distracting to have Yuka things in my RSISE office. It's hard to get work done if I keep worrying about a lot of things. But back to Yuka, I'm also quite flat out with the ISER paper that I haven't been able to get much work done on it. So that's something I need to do when i'm at home.
It's just a distribution of tasks according to the location. RSISE = PhD... home = YUKA ... Restaurant = Restaurant work ... hopefully that's going to be the case...
I've also been pondering the possibility of suspending my PhD for a semester or a few months to work on my other projects. But that will have to happen when I've become a permanent residency 'cause I need to be enrolled full-time while holding a student visa. Suspending the program will mean no scholarship during that period.
I wasn't thinking of ending my PhD career , mind you.. but I hope to slow down the process and give myself more time to really catch up with everything. I still plan to work on my PhD project during that period, just without scholarship and school support. I can still meet with supervisor and have access to RSISE. It only means that I can work on it without deadlines or submissions. At the same time, I can do more work on other projects.
Well, that's still a long way to go and I need to think more about it and talk to my supervisor and the people who're giving me the scholarships. We'll see.
Okay, I know I haven't been updating my blogsite for a long while. Don't complain 'cause my other more important things have also been neglected as well. My websites, PhD technical journal, Yuka research and development, etc. Well, at least I'm gonna take this opportunity to think about what I need to do in the coming weeks and set a few priorities straight.
Well, first of all, ISER 2004 conference paper is almost finished. Setting up the experiment to be recorded as a movie to be submitted with the conference paper. Gotta read and finish off the literature review part. Once that's done, Roy and I are gonna discuss about the new experimental set-up. Got Jason to purchase more SMA wires as well.
In the mean time, I've got a few things to try out on the current set-up and control system. Might be helping or working with the honours student who is continuing on my project.
PhD coursework shouldn't be a problem. Just finished one and will be having the oral exam this week. Wonder how we're going to proceed with it.
I should also commit myself to collecting more papers or journals on SMAs and really start reading and summarising them. This year will basically be filled with a lot of small projects, papers and courses so it feels very chaotic. My feeling is that i'm quite disorganised at this stage although i'm still keeping up with things. But in terms of scientific research and experimentation, i' still lacking that.
ProjectYUKA, in case people are unfamiliar with that, is a joint venture i'm currently involved in as its research engineer. Basically it's related to human-computer/human-environment interface technologies. Will probably have a link to it once we're prepared to lodge the provisional application and published some stuffs.
I've basically moved the development process to my own house. I found it quite distracting to have Yuka things in my RSISE office. It's hard to get work done if I keep worrying about a lot of things. But back to Yuka, I'm also quite flat out with the ISER paper that I haven't been able to get much work done on it. So that's something I need to do when i'm at home.
It's just a distribution of tasks according to the location. RSISE = PhD... home = YUKA ... Restaurant = Restaurant work ... hopefully that's going to be the case...
I've also been pondering the possibility of suspending my PhD for a semester or a few months to work on my other projects. But that will have to happen when I've become a permanent residency 'cause I need to be enrolled full-time while holding a student visa. Suspending the program will mean no scholarship during that period.
I wasn't thinking of ending my PhD career , mind you.. but I hope to slow down the process and give myself more time to really catch up with everything. I still plan to work on my PhD project during that period, just without scholarship and school support. I can still meet with supervisor and have access to RSISE. It only means that I can work on it without deadlines or submissions. At the same time, I can do more work on other projects.
Well, that's still a long way to go and I need to think more about it and talk to my supervisor and the people who're giving me the scholarships. We'll see.
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